PRC DECLARATION
CONFIDENTIAL
DSR 11C
I am instructed by
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to refer to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(the Agreement), to the Joint Declaration of the
Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's
Republic of China on the question of Hong Kong, signed
in Peking on 19 December 1984, and to the communication
which the United Kingdom Mission in Geneva has today
addressed to the Director of Legal Affairs, GATT.
the
In accordance with that Joint Declaration the
Hong Kong area will, on 1 July 1997, become a Special
Administrative Region of the People's Republic of
China, and will continue to possess full autonomy in
the conduct of its external commercial relations and of
all the other matters provided for in the Agreement.
The Government of the People's Republic of China
accordingly requests that the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
should, when established, continue to be deemed to be a
contracting party to the Agreement.
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